Second IE9 Platform Preview is now Available for Developers. Around Seven weeks ago at the MIX Conference, Microsoft released the first IE9 Platform Preview and committed to update the Preview approximately every eight weeks. Now, they have released the second Platform Preview of Internet Explorer 9, available at www.IETestDrive.com.
This new release built on the first Platform Preview, delivers improvements to IE9’s performance, support for standards, and hardware acceleration of HTML5. Also the test drive site has been updated with a new set of developer samples to show what developers can do with GPU-powered HTML5. As part of commitment to enabling developers to use the Same Markup – the same HTML, CSS, and script – on the web, IE team has contributed many new tests to the W3C for HTML5, as well as CSS3 Media Queries and DOM. The Developer Tools in this preview include some new features to make finding and fixing markup issues easier.
As on Microsoft team Blog , In IE9, our goal is to provide professional-grade, modern HTML5 support on top of modern hardware through Windows. The IE9 Platform Preview and the samples at the test drive site show the significant performance gains that web pages enjoy when a browser takes full advantage of the PC’s hardware capabilities through the operating system.
The following tests can be experimented on Second IE9 Platform Preview :
- Flickr Explorer
- Browser Flip
- Scrolling Text
- CSS3 Media Queries
- DOMContentLoaded
- getElementsByClassName
- DOM Range & Selection
- SVG Tweet Cloud
- Real-world Diagrams
- Org Chart in Page
This platform release has a better ACID score over last version. Here’s how the second release of Internet Explorer Platform Preview scores:
Download IE9 Platform Preview here : http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/info/ThankYou/Default.html 14.3 MB